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  Review by maria ★★★★ 6

  what's her skin routine, dermatologists hate her

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★

  what the fuck lmfao

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  Review by FredM ★★★★ 12

  Talk about movies you will not forget having seen them a decade ago, well, this is a perfect example.
  A truly mesmerizing experience, which gets more and more uncomfortable as it progresses.
  Forget the slashers with axes, true horror, that's surgeons with scalpels.

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 35

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Still digesting this, but I can't wrap my head around this in any way that doesn't come up the same: transmisogynistic and general misogynistic garbage. Feel free to disagree in the comments if you're a trans woman, non-binary, or, for the non-trans misogyny, a cis woman.

  TW: forced surgery, transmisogyny, misogyny, rape, kidnapping, suicide

  * Forced feminization is at best complicated, but here it is filmed in such bright-yet-sterile care that it seems like an indulgence, like the filmmakers found it artful. It seems as though both the enforcement and the feminization are felt to be horrors. While being wrongfully altered surgically to another gender is terrifying, it's hard not to see this also as a depiction of femininity as…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★ 2

  BOY THIS WAS FUCKED UP

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★½ 21

  Dios mio.

  Dios fucking mio.

  Pardon my Spanish, but this film just knocked the wind out of me. Almodovar is one messed up genius and he pushes the boat out here with this wonderfully bizarre fairytale.

  It is a fairytale in so far that it deals with real life themes but puts them in a larger than life setting. And larger than life it is. It is very difficult to write anything about this film without spoiling the plot so I won't as I feel this film is best enjoyed if you go in cold.

  There is a small danger in that as I found the first half hour or so unbelievably cold and distant. And while this tone never…

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  Review by dylan gelula ★★★★★ 2

  this is so insanely fucked up. it also looks so gorgeous and i love the score. it is my deepest held belief that movies should make us feel horrified and bad

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★

  THAT WAS QUITE THE PLOT TWIST

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  Review by iana ★★★½

  ...that was a journey

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  Review by Marianna Neal ★★★★½ 3

  If Pedro Almodóvar wanted to make "a horror story without screams or frights" - that's exactly what he created here. It's the kind psychological horror that calmly terrifies you as the story unfolds instead of going for the scares, it doesn't shock you with reveals - it shocks you as you slowly realize the nightmare that is this situation. And of course, there is no getting away from all of the drama.

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  Review by Robin Moon (they/them) ★ 8

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  (cw: sexual assault, transphobia, misogyny)

  This is not going to be a polite review. This is not going to be a rigorous review. And it's going to be profanity laden. If that isn't your cup of tea, that's fine, move right along.

  This is a movie about a guy who punishes his daughter's rapist by "turning him into a woman."

  1) You can't actually change someone's gender without their consent because your genitals aren't your fucking gender.

  2) If you could change someone's gender without their consent that would be fucking horrifying, like as horrifying as rape.

  3) You (Banderas' character) are pretty implicitly planning to repeatedly rape this person as a punishment for... rape. Your sense of justice is…

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  Review by tobias (: ★★★½ 3

  too much sex. too much biting. too many europeans. shame on you puss in boots